I've never heard anyone say that it is too expensive to do business in Texas, Florida, Arizona, Missouri, and a long list of other places.
Small businesses are foundering and large ones are either shopping for deals in other counties in CA or being romanced by other states.
Hot tip for small enterprinure today is selling [mandatory] auto insurance to any and all starting at $17 a month. Another is charging to handle vehicle registration in one's native language. I don't see either of those, or lawn maintenance, as doing much for the tax base.
Right now it's even more depressing to watch local real estate dropping like a rock while all the places you want to go to are holding steady.
I'm only here today because I can't lever Ms Norton out of the smog and shopping. [don't remind me, wimping out in my old age]
“I’ve never heard anyone say that it is too expensive to do business in Texas, Florida, Arizona, Missouri, and a long list of other places.”
Listen please...
I am in the wedding business. Been so for 25 years. The high cost of the property taxes on a new home for newlyweds in Florida is cutting wedding budgets like no other industry. A couple can be Florida born natives. Their parents have lived in one place for the 20 years. The kids property taxes will be four times that of the parents.
It’s a lose lose situation. The newlyweds have it just as bad as the new residents coming from out of state. Oh - I forgot nobody is moving into Florida anymore.